suggestions on battery life?

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Set it to go into standby while in the pouch. Turn the brightness down to around 50-60%. Turn off wifi and bluetooth when not using it. And make sure you don't have to many apps running at the same time.

To check apps running - hold down the left alt key and then press the back button next to the trackball.

and how do i stop running the apps like when i press the alt and back key the browser comes up,the bb messenger wich i dont use,"home screen" ,messages and call log..how do i stop running the ones i dont use??

Set it to go into standby while in the pouch. Turn the brightness down to around 50-60%. Turn off wifi and bluetooth when not using it. And make sure you don't have to many apps running at the same time.

To check apps running - hold down the left alt key and then press the back button next to the trackball.

I agree with all this but I have had 4 BB now and use brightness at 100% on everyone, dont get me wrong this will eat up battery. I WOULD ALSO SUGEST RUNNING BATTERY AS MUCH AS THE WAY DOWN AS YOU CAN AND RECHARGE.
opps sorry bout caps

Your other option if you need those apps running is to get a Seidio extended life battery. The 2600 will double your battery life. It is thicker and some consetions on cases and such will have to be addressed but you go from 5 hours of talk time to ten.

Your other option if you need those apps running is to get a Seidio extended life battery. The 2600 will double your battery life. It is thicker and some consetions on cases and such will have to be addressed but you go from 5 hours of talk time to ten.

What do you mean by that? If you have the app and it's running (for instance you've logged on Jivetalk and people can im you whenever they want), yes, your battery will be used. But if you have already downloaded it and you're not running it (i.e. you're not logged in), then it's just sitting there. If you are running Viigo, Weather Eye, Twitter or etc., those apps constantly run in the background and update itself depending on what you have set the intervals to.

Oh and if you know what you're doing, there are newer OS's that have come out for the Javelin. There are lots of threads on how to upgrade your OS. From what I have found, OS upgrades usually increase the battery life on bb's.

some suggestions:
turn off the gps unless you need it
set the backlight brightnes to the lowest level best for you (mine is set to 10)
set the backlight timeout to the lowest possible (mine is set to 30)
led coverage to off
dim backlight on
set call tone to tone or vibrate, not combined
set the led to off on profiles
if it possible do not run multiple apps at the same time
set the app that auto update to manually or the longest time suitable for you

and finally let the batt fully drain at leas once a week and then recharge it fully

hope that helps

When i say i have Bold family phones, I meant it, from the older to the younger, even the unborn ;)